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The game crashes when loading, while "loading sprites" at 89%.
Works just fine in 0.16.2.

Not even sure if mods have anything to do with the crash, because they don't really even load.

Please ask for more info if needed, or if there is anything I can do to fix the issue, even temporarily.

I get the same issue. I found a workaround.

Nvidia GTX 970 (I did modify the firmware to run at a lower voltage, but I did this 3 years ago and I haven't had issues in more taxing games)
AMD 955t quad core
Windows 7 x64 home
8GB ram @ 1333Mhz
I DO have cygwin installed even before factorio. I saw this in the log file.
I was running vanilla, no mods


Workaround
Rollback to no beta (0.15.whatever the latest was)
Load the game
Go to options, graphics, change video usage from maximum to high
Disable texture compression
Close Factorio
Update to 0.16.3
See it load